Long Stratton High School, Norwich

Ofsted's report card from its 10 February 2026 inspection grades Long Stratton High School on 6 areas: 3 strong standard and 3 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Strong standard. "The impact of the highly effective curriculum is that pupils, including disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, achieve very well."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "The curriculum is highly ambitious and well constructed."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Since the previous inspection report, leaders have built on and improved the school further."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Staff promote the importance of high attendance to pupils and their parents."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure all staff have high expectations of pupils, including pupils who are disadvantaged, those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those who are known, or previously known, to social care."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The schools values of 'ambition, kindness, integrity and respect' thread through the personal development programme."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should further embed their approach to reducing barriers to attendance so that pupils, including those that are disadvantaged, have high attendance and/or show notable improvement in their attendance rates".

In 2026, pupils at Long Stratton High School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 48.5, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 45 in Norfolk and 47 across England.

53% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 43% in Norfolk and 47% in England.

That is down from 50.8 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.54: pupils made well above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 31.8, against 55 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 23.2 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 21 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, History and Geography.

For September 2026 entry, 109 families put Long Stratton High School as their first choice and 168 named it as one of their preferences, for 122 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

Long Stratton High School is one of 9 schools run by Enrich Learning Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 49.7 in 2024/25.

208 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Long Stratton High School (as of April 2026): 72% would recommend the school, 68% say their child is happy there and 42% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (75%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (42%).

Of the 103 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 85% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 47% to a further education college, 4% to an apprenticeship and 5% into work.

2.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Long Stratton High School.

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is High School (adjacent), 70 metres away.

In 2024/25, Long Stratton High School issued 268 suspensions, 37.5 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The primary schools closest to Long Stratton High School are St Mary's Church of England Junior Academy (under 0.1 miles), Manor Field Infant and Nursery School (0.2 miles) and Forncett St Peter Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School (1.9 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.